Make Your CFO a Social Media Fan

Social media definitely pays off, but you’ve got to focus on the approach not the tools.

Social Media has hit the mainstream these days but the big concern on every product marketer’s mind has been how to justify the ROI?  Never is that more true than at budget time. The purse string holders might harbor unspoken [...]

November 9th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Blogging, Buzz Marketing, Content Marketing, Conversational Marketing, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, Strategy | One comment

5 ways to use social media for solution marketing

It’s easy to get caught up in the buzz, and the hype, around social media. I’ve been working with many B2B companies to help them figure out when and how to use social media in their business.  The answer is always a bit different depending on the product or service. One area that few people [...]

October 19th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Conversational Marketing, Facebook, Innovation, Listening, Social Media, Support, Twitter | 2 comments

How much is that Facebook Fan worth anyway?

Vitrue a social media marketing platform determined that the average value of a Facebook ‘fan’ is about $3.60 when it comes to a Media Equivalent Value (MEV) per year. This calculation is based on the brand posting to their Facebook Fan Page twice a day and that they have a million fans which equates to [...]

July 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Branding, Conversational Marketing, Facebook, Inbound Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking | 13 comments

Marketing needs to be more Adaptive!

Ok so this isn’t the newest concept you ever heard of – but hear me out – its time we really changed a few things in the marketing organization.

So its easy to see that today’s marketing teams are not that well equipped to handle “real time marketing” as David Meerman Scott defined it. We need [...]

June 22nd, 2011 | Category: Advertising, behavioral targeting, Branding, Content Marketing, Conversational Marketing, Interactive Marketing, Leadership, Marketing, Media, Online Advertising, Social Media, Social Networking, Strategy | 7 comments

11 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2011

Around this time last year I wrote about the 10 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2010 and while I would say 7 out of 10 have already materialized and the others are on their way. So that begs the question – what’s on the horizon specifically for B2B Marketers next year?

Here are 11 concrete ways I [...]

December 8th, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Applications, Buzz Marketing, Commerce, Communications, Conversational Marketing, Customer Experience, Customer Support, Facebook, Mobile, Monitoring, Online Advertising, Pay Per Click, Reputation Management, Reputation Monitoring, SEO, Social Media, Social Networking, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Twitter | 27 comments

3 More ROIs in Social Media – Conversations Leads and Advocates

If you follow me you know I talk a lot about the ROI of Social Media since I happen to have stumbled on a great ROI using Social Media in providing support for our customers at Avaya.

Social customer support I would argue is the single best place to focus your social media efforts since it [...]

October 27th, 2010 | Category: Communications, Conversational Marketing, Customer Support, Facebook, Inbound Marketing, Lead Generation, Loyalty, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter | 11 comments

PR needs to Focus on Conversations

It’s no secret that the number of publications has declined over the last few years. The impact of that can be felt in B2C as well as B2B Marketing. There are fewer numbers of print publications remaining and every company’s marketing department wants to garner more traditional press. But it’s a zero sum game and [...]

September 15th, 2010 | Category: Communications, Conversational Marketing, PR | 7 comments

Creating Engagement in B2B Marketing

A recent Cone Inc.’s Social Media in Business study found that 60 percent of consumers believe they are already interacting with companies on the social Web. Nearly all participants — 93 percent — believe all companies should have a presence in social media. And 85 percent believe companies should not just present information via social [...]

March 2nd, 2010 | Category: Blogging, Branding, Buzz Marketing, Communities, Content Marketing, Conversational Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Interactive Marketing, Social Media, Twitter | 10 comments

5 Tricks to B2B Marketing Socially

Whenever I ask members of sales team from around the globe what they need – the answer never changes – more case studies. Its not to say that we don’t respond but for whatever reason it takes a village to get a single case study done.

The reason the sales team loves case studies is it [...]

November 9th, 2009 | Category: Content Marketing, Conversational Marketing, Social Media, Thought Leadership | 8 comments

Crowds have no leaders!

The Internet has eliminated the barriers of geography, cost and time. Social tools like blogs and social networking sites are helping crowds form around very discrete topics.

But what is missing from these crowds are leaders. Like any social network that you may join you have those that join and just lurk, those that maybe make [...]

November 3rd, 2008 | Category: Advertising, Branding, Communities, Conversational Marketing, Interactive Marketing, Leadership, Social Media, Social Networking | One comment
 
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